ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo

New Features

New in ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo 2011 V3

• New Gauge control - new linear and radial gauges provide rich data visualisations powered by HTML5 and jQuery. Easily customisable, they support tick marks, labels, ranges and more. The gauges work in IE6+, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
• New chart types - the HTML5 chart types have been expanded with new area, bubble, composite, scatter and spline types. The new composite chart control enables you to put multiple charts on a single chart surface. The new charts continue to offer interactive features like animations, transitions and tooltips and they support IE6+.
• New HTML5 editor - provides a Microsoft Word-like editing experience for HTML content in either a design, source code or a split view. It also supports BBCode, spell-checking and more.
• New Multimedia controls - new multimedia controls provide interactive ways of displaying media. A lightbox control provides a pop-up image viewer, a gallery control can display a range of photos and images and a carousel control provides an interactive UI for navigating photos/videos.
• New HTML 5 video player - provides an interactive version of the browser's video player. It supports all common functionality such as volume, play, pause and a timeline.
• New Rating control - let users rate content with a range of different visuals such as stars, thumbs, bars etc. The control can handle any range of values for the rating system.

New in ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo 2011 V2

• HTML5 charting - HTML5 charts are powered by Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is a perfect for creating rich and interactive visualisations in HTML5. Some benefits of charting with SVG include true client-side charting, DOM-friendly charts, hardware accelerated graphics, interactive animations and tooltips and streaming visualisations. Plus, the charts require no additional plugins
• jQuery grid - a new tabular datagrid for interactively selecting, editing, sorting, scrolling, filtering and grouping data. With numerous ways to customise, it can be used to visualise data more effectively
• Theming - included in ASP.NET Wijmo are 6 CSS3-based themes, 24 jQuery UI themes and Themeroller - a custom theme builder.

Features

Features and Highlights

45+ Feature-packed Components and Controls

Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo adds over 45 controls to your Visual Studio toolbox, including grids, charts, reports, schedulers, calendars, menus, toolbars, treeviews, tabs, inputs, editors, splitters, and more! These controls not only fill the gap with what's missing in the standard toolkit, but they add more features, functionality, and better performance over their existing counterparts.

Bring the Windows Experience to the Web

The Windows experience is familiar to millions of users worldwide. With highly-responsive, AJAX-enhanced components, you can deliver this familiar experience in any Web application and take your usability to a higher level.

Cross-browser Compatibility

Save time and effort by using Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo components to ensure that your UI works in all standard browsers. ComponentOne controls make cross-browser development effortless. All of the controls work in IE6+, Firefox 3+, Safari 3+, Chrome and Opera. ComponentOne utilise new features in modern browsers while still supporting legacy browsers.

Design with Ease: SmartTags, Editors, Wizards, and More

All of the components are built to include SmartTag support with access to designers and the most common properties. The controls have been rated the highest in design time experience in the market.

Includes Extenders Toolkit

ComponentOne have created Control Extenders for each of the UI tools. If you liked the AJAX Control Toolkit, you will love using the Extenders included in this studio. ComponentOne offer both Controls and Extenders that share the same Object Model to make it easy for you to transition between server-side and AJAX development.

Theming

With just a click of the SmartTag, change the control's look by selecting one of the 6 premium themes (Arctic, Midnight, Aristo, Rocket, Cobalt, and Sterling). Optionally, use ThemeRoller from jQuery UI to create a customised theme!

Interactive HTML5 Charts

What makes these charts superior is that they’re powered by Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is a perfect for creating rich and interactive visualisations in HTML5. The charts are built on the core Wijmo technology - giving you the best data-visualisation tools for the web. Some benefits of charting with SVG include true client-side charting, DOM-friendly charts, hardware accelerated graphics, interactive animations and tooltips, and streaming visualisations. Plus, the charts require no additional plugins.

High-performance jQuery Grid

The tabular datagrid allows users to interactively select, edit, sort, scroll through, filter, and group data. It’s highly customisable and can be used to better understand and visualise data more effectively.

Migrate from Microsoft Access and Crystal Reports

ComponentOne ReportViewer companion, the C1ReportDesigner application lets you create new reports from scratch or import existing ones from Microsoft Access and Crystal Reports. You don't have to be an expert to add Access-style database reports to your Web pages; no coding required!

Ensure Data Integrity with Input

ComponentOne Input has robust client-side validation for data types. By replacing standard text boxes with the input controls you can drastically improve your data integrity without writing a single line of code.

Deliver Rich Office-style UI's with Editor

ComponentOne Editor offers industry-best HTML editor experience with valuable preview, code, and split modes. ComponentOne have created an editing experience that's easy enough for the novice user, yet comprehensive enough for the advanced developer.

Unparalleled Platinum Support

From the 24-hour support response guarantee to the knowledge-rich online community, ComponentOne offer unmatched support. Customers are entitled to:

• Knowledge Base Access
• Phone Support
• Forum Support

Subscriptions

ComponentOne Standard Support

ComponentOne Standard Support is a one year subscription included in the purchase of the product and can be renewed once the year's subscription is up. Standard support provides:

• Product updates - for the period of your subscription you will receive any updates for the products you hold licenses for
• Email support - submit an incident through email
• Online support - submit an incident through the Web and receive an email response
• Knowledgebase access - provides access to key documents on all products
• Forum access - provide comments and share knowledge in the ComponentOne forums
• Email project for analysis

ComponentOne Platinum Support

ComponentOne Platinum Support is an optional purchase. Platinum support provides:

• 24 hour FastTrack response (excludes weekends and US holidays) - submit issues to ComponentOne and ComponentOne will attempt to provide a resolution within 24 hours
• Phone support - talk directly to ComponentOne to get your issues solved
• Pre-release access to software - get access to ComponentOne beta software releases.